“NoteStream actually started with French wine, as so many things do,” said Michelle Forsythe, co-founder of NoteStream. NoteStream is a Lake Forest-based startup that has created a mobile publishing app, featuring curated articles on topics as diverse as military history and gardening.

Forysthe started the company with her husband last year, and the two have steadily been growing the business since then.

“We were looking at a bottle of French wine and we had no idea what kind of grapes were in it. The reality was that we weren’t going to take a class on it,” said Forsythe. “We thought, there has to be a way to get some credible information on your mobile phone in a way that isn’t an endless scroll.”